New answers tagged sentence-structure
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Why are there both "was" and "wozu" in this sentence: "Auf jeden Fall ist es mir vollkommen egal, was Sie denken, wozu Sie ein recht hätten!"?
The name of the phenomenon is scope marking. This is a complicated issue because it is about forming questions in multiple embedded clauses...
So, "was" is not a real question word but it is ...
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Why are there both "was" and "wozu" in this sentence: "Auf jeden Fall ist es mir vollkommen egal, was Sie denken, wozu Sie ein recht hätten!"?
The was and the wozu are parts of different subordinate clauses, so there is no repetition.
The first subordinate clause is was Sie denken and refers to egal.
Es ist mir egal, was Sie denken = I don't ...
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Multiple unds in a sentence
In Krems, which is a very nice town and a destination for many tourists in Lower Austria, which is one of the nine states of Austria, is a monastery named Und1. It has a website, a wikipedia article ...
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Multiple unds in a sentence
This works in princple (with the 5 und), but the standard answer would use
articles:
Ich möchte mehr Platz zwischen dem Schwein und dem Und, und dem Und und der Pfeife.
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Location of adverb 'heute' in the sentence
If you want to use Duolingo, you need get used to the fact that it makes its own rules for what it considers right or wrong. You cannot discuss them. You just have to accept what Duolingo considers ...
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Location of adverb 'heute' in the sentence
The problem with the sentence
Wir heute gehen ins Kaufhaus.
is that heute is placed at position 2. But in a statement, this position is reserved for the verb. Which means that this sentence violates ...
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Der offenkundigen Absicht der neuen Regierung?
Absicht is feminine, but it is in dative case. The subject, which in this sentence is Streichung, is in nominative case. Maybe it is the word order that confuses you. So let's get rid of the ...
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